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Page last updated:
07 Sep 2025

Your campus card (or student ID) is your key to on-campus facilities and services.

On this page you’ll find information about what you’ll need your campus card for, how to get one if you’re a new student or if you need a replacement, and guidelines on providing a suitable photo for your card. 

NEW STUDENTS

Your course team will tell you when and where you can collect your campus card during your course inductions. You will also receive an email confirming this. It’s important you read this email and collect your card at the correct time. Your collection email will be titled “Collect your LBU Campus Card”.

If you miss your collection, it will delay you getting your card and could make it difficult to access all university facilities until you do.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS - You must have completed international check-in before you can get your campus card.

Further details can be found below.

What is my campus card and what do I need it for?

When you start a new course for the first time, most students will receive a student campus card. Your card contains details about you, such as your name, your username and when your card expires. This card will be valid for the duration of your course as long as you remain enrolled as a student. It also contains a photo for identification purposes. Your campus card is essential for accessing key facilities and services on campus. You will need your card for:

  • Access to certain buildings
  • Printing while on campus
  • Access to sports facilities
  • Library access
  • Proof of student status for exams

Everything you need to know about your campus card

What constitutes a suitable photo?

If you are a new student you need to upload a suitable photo for your campus card to Online Welcome. Should your card be printed with an unsuitable photo you may be charged £10 on arrival for a replacement. Please review our photo guidance carefully before uploading your photo.

The photo you upload must adhere to the following guidelines (please see suitable/unsuitable examples below):

  • Be similar to a passport photo (but not a photo of your passport)
  • Be a head and shoulders image
  • Be a recent photo (we must be able to recognise it is you)
  • Be a colour photo
  • It must contain only you in the frame (no group photos or animals)
  • Filters must not be applied - e.g. Snapchat
  • You must be facing towards the camera and looking directly at it
  • Be appropriately dressed (no hats, sunglasses, and no shower selfies please!)
  • You can smile!
Examples of acceptable and unacceptable photos.

All you need to know if you are a new student at Leeds Beckett University

If you are a new student commencing your studies in September 2025, you should follow the steps below:
  1. Upload a suitable photo for your campus card to Online Welcome by midnight Friday 29 August 2025.
  2. Attend your course inductions during w/c 15 September. Your course team will tell you where and when you will get your card. You will also be emailed details of this once you've started.
  3. If you did not upload a photo before the deadline or uploaded an unsuitable photo, you will need to have your photo taken on campus. Your course will tell you where and when you can do this.
     

If you have not collected your campus card by the 26 September 2025 please visit one of our Student Services Centres:

Headingley: Priestley Hall
City: Leslie Silver Building

Online Welcome

If you are a Study Abroad or Exchange student, you’ll be given your campus card during your induction session with the Global Village team.

If you have any queries in the meantime, please contact Student Immigration Advice and Compliance.

If you're an international student commencing your studies in September 2025, you must ensure you have completed international check-in with Student Immigration, Advice and Compliance (SIAC), prior to collecting your campus card. SIAC will verify your passport, visa and any other relevant documents at international check-in:
  1. Attend your course inductions during w/c 15 September. Your school will help you get your campus card and email you with instructions.
  2. Even if you have completed international check in before welcome week, you will need to wait until welcome week to collect your card.
  3. If you have any questions about collecting your campus card, please visit the Global Village Help Desk.

As of the 26 September 2025 if you have not yet collected your Campus Card visit either Student Services Centre:

  • Headingley: Priestley Hall
  • City: Leslie Silver building

If you are studying a distance learning course and are based in the UK only, you should follow the steps below:

  • Upload a suitable photo to Online Welcome before 29 August 2025.
  • Contact your school administration team once your course has started. Your course administrator may have your card and will be able to post your card to a preferred UK address.

Apologies, we are unable to post campus cards to overseas addresses.

If you do not upload a suitable photo to Online Welcome before the 29 August 2025, please contact campuscard@leedsbeckett.ac.uk. (To speed up enquires please contact the team via your student email address and include your student ID number.)

Online Welcome

Replacement cards

If you’re a student and have lost your card, you can order a replacement from the online store.

Replacement cards are £10.

Your replacement campus card should then be collected from one of the Student Services Centres:

Opening times:

  • Monday – Thursday - 09:00 – 17:00*
  • Friday – 09:00 – 16:30

*Please note, our Student Services Centres open at 10:00 on Tuesdays.

Order a new card

If your card has been stolen (and you have a crime reference number), please visit the Student Services Centres on Headingley Campus or City Campus for further support. If a crime reference number is not available, the replacement request will be treated as a lost card with a £10 replacement fee.

  • Headingley Campus – Priestley Hall (ground floor)
  • City Campus – Leslie Silver building (ground floor opposite the Library)

Opening times:

  • Monday – Thursday - 09.00 – 17.00*
  • Friday – 09.00 – 16.30

*Please note, our Student Services Centres open at 10.00 on Tuesdays

Yes, all funds and building access details will transfer to the new card, however, your new card will take approximately 45 minutes to activate.

If you have ordered a new Campus Card via the Online Store and you have not yet collected your card you can request a refund by contacting campuscard@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

If your new card has been printed we unfortunately, cannot provide a refund.

What to do if you need to change your campus card details

If your name shows incorrectly, or your name has changed recently, Student Advice can support you in updating your student record. Please contact the team via email or telephone:

If you are a colleague with a name change request, please contact HRServicesteam@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.

If your appearance has changed significantly, you can request your photo is updated to a more recent image. Please email Student Advice (campuscard@leedsbeckett.ac.uk) if you wish to update your campus card photo.

Please note, Student Advice will only re-print campus cards free of charge where a student's appearance is significantly different to their campus card image. If you wish to change your current photo due to personal preference, you will be required to purchase a replacement card from the university's Online Store.

If you are a colleague and wish to change the photo on your campus card, please visit the IT Service Desk in the Library.

Your campus card has an expiry date on it. After this date, your campus card will automatically deactivate, and you will lose access to the library and other campus facilities.

If your card has expired but you are a continuing student, we can replace your card for free.

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You can top up online using our ePay service with a debit or credit card. Please only top up with small amounts of credit (£1.00 minimum) as we cannot refund outstanding credit when you graduate.

Contact Student Advice

We are located in the Student Services Centres in the Leslie Silver building (City Campus) and Priestley Hall (Headingley Campus). Our opening times are:- Monday: 09.00 – 17.00 Tuesday: 10.00 – 17.00 Wednesday: 09.00 – 17.00 Thursday: 09.00 – 17.00 Friday: 09.00 – 16.30. If you have any questions in relation to your enrolment or Online Welcome system, please contact welcome@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Enrolment advice: welcome@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

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